The diagrams-builder package

diagrams-builder provides backend-agnostic tools for
dynamically turning code into rendered diagrams,
using the hint wrapper to the GHC API. It
supports conditional recompilation using hashing
of diagrams source code, to avoid recompiling
code that has not changed. It is useful for
creating tools which compile diagrams code
embedded in other documents. For example, it is
used by the BlogLiterately-diagrams package (a
plugin for BlogLiterately) to compile diagrams
embedded in Markdown-formatted blog posts.

Executables specific to the cairo, SVG, and postscript
backends are included (more executables specific
to other backends may be included in the future).
All take an input file and an expression to
render, and output an image file. If you want
these executables you must explicitly enable the
-fcairo, -fsvg, or -fps flags.

A LaTeX package, diagrams-latex.sty, is also
provided in the latex/ directory of the source
distribution, which renders diagrams code found
within diagram environments. Note that
diagrams-latex.sty is licensed under the GPL.

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Readme for diagrams-builder-0.5.0.6

diagrams-builder provides backend-agnostic tools for dynamically
turning code into rendered
diagrams, using the
hint wrapper to the GHC
API. It supports conditional recompilation using hashing of diagrams
source code, to avoid recompiling code that has not changed. It is
useful for creating tools which compile diagrams code embedded in
other documents. For example, it is used by the
BlogLiterately-diagrams
package (a plugin for
BlogLiterately)
to compile diagrams embedded in
Markdown-formatted
blog posts.

An executable specific to the
cairo backend is included
(more executables specific to other backends will be included in the
future). It takes an input file and an expression to render and
outputs an image file, using the cairo backend. If you want it you
must explicitly enable the cairo flag with -fcairo.

A LaTeX package, diagrams-latex.sty, is also provided in the
latex/ directory of the source distribution, which renders diagrams
code found within diagram environments. It makes use of the
diagrams-builder-cairo executable, so if you want to use
diagrams-latex.sty you should install diagrams-builder with the
-fcairo option. Note that diagrams-latex.sty is licensed under
the GPL.